Tag: creativity

Minecraft in education: 10 engaging activities for your kids

Minecraft is still a very successful game after almost 10 years, and this alone is already enough to consider it worthy to be used as a tool for engaging kids in many possible activities. Moreover, Minecraft is so relevant as an education tool, that that was precisely the reason why Microsoft acquired it in 2016,…

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Digital Youth Work: Dig-it Up!

Digital Youth Work: Dig-It up! is the booklet I wrote together with Joanna Wronska and Raphaela Blassnig in 2017. It tells what we discovered, studied and learnt during two editions of our training course aimed at youth workers / educators / etc which is actually called Dig-It Up! – inside you can find the training course’s programme,…

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Christmas tech gifts for kids? 5 tips, tested for you

Gifts, gifts … 10 days to Christmas, are you ready? Have you already bought everything? Or have not you even thought about it yet? 🙂 At this point the children will have already written their letters to Father Christmas, and parents will already be grappling with boxes of Lego or other stuff, to be hidden…

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InternetFestival : videogame – based learning – #IF2017

InternetFestival is a very serious thing, probably the most serious in Italy about network-related topics and trends. Yet 😀 the organization contacted me and my partner-in-crime Carmine , involving us in the T-Tour section, a series of public workshops during the festival. Apart from joking, the InternetFestival machine contacted us at the end of June to…

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School: is it really destroying creativity?

Today I had to go to school, but I felt really bad: my famous back pain, faithful companion of many adventures, lately is quite angry and in these two or three days in particular he decided I wasn’t supposed to be able to drive, sit down, bend over, I mean… nothing. Unless you swallow anti-inflammatories like…

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American Lectures – six memos for the next web

Last week I gave a lecture in a training course for workers in the local Public Healthcare Agency in Monza. What do the American lectures matter with this? While preparing the presentation which was a script to my rants 🙂 at one point I had one of those enlightments which put in front of your eyes a simple, easy thing… such a…

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